I have a 2004 F150 Supercab with less than 30K miles. Recently, I have started to hear a crunching noise when turning left. The noise seems to be coming from the front wheel area, but it is very hard to tell exactly what is doing it. I jacked up my front end and shook the front wheels to check and make sure my hubs where tight...they where. I also checked to make sure I didn't have a loose lug nutt, they where all tight. I crawled underneath to see if something was rubbing and couldn't see anything. Could this be a ball joint? or a worn out shock? I need some help???. Truck drives fine otherwise, someone told me to grease my slip yoke but I don't think that would be the issue when the sound only comes with a left turn...If I lived in New Jersey I could just do right hand turns all day and be just fine. Help Help Help.

 

How far do you turn the wheel left before you hear the noise? Do you have wide rims on the front?


The lightnings have steering stops to prevent the wide rims from rubbing on the bolt that anchors the brake flex line.
Check your inside rim edge, perhaps it is rubbing on hard left turns.

just an idea...

 

Moving this thread.

 

The noise starts when I'm about 3/4 to full into the turn radius. It is extremely loud when turning sharply up a slight incline. Primarily when I turn to the left. The sound seems to originate from the right side wheel or in that general area. I have stock rims and tires, no mods at all. I'd like to think it is a bad bearing in the hub, but there is absolutely no play in the wheel when I jacked it up. ???

 

Mine makes a rubbing/tearing noise in the same area with the same 3/4 to full turn especially on an incline. Stock tires and rims as well, I figured out that it is the tire catching the backside portion of wheel-well liner. Mine isn't really metallic sounding though. Just something to look into

 

Have you looked into the IWE solenoid or the check valves. I am having a similar noise in my front left and I think the symptoms sound like the solenoid or check valve failure.

 

Looks like I had a wheel bearing going bad on the right front. It didn't have any play in it, and wouldn't make any noise without a load on it, so it was very hard to trouble shoot. Ball joints etc...are in great shape. I also had an issue with the parking break not releasing properly and it turned out to be a sticky break caliper in the right rear. The Crunching Popping Grinding noise was from the rt. frnt. wheel bearing; but, it is my feeling that the combination of the two made things difficult to trouble shoot. I took the truck to Ourisman Ford in Virginia as they always have the parts in stock and the guys spent all day making sure they had found the problem. I've never seen a group of guys work that hard to make sure the diagnosis was correct...Hope this helps anyone in the same boat. Thanks for the info on the IWE solenoid or the check valves issues, but I have a 2WD so that didn't come into play.

 

wow thanks lol been havin this problem for a few weeks. scared to tell my parents they are going to punch me in the head for this one. how much to fix it?

 

80 bucks for the bearing/hub for 2wd... lucky a$$ 300 for 4wd... easy easy fix tho. take about 1/2 hour